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2*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerHere are a few quick points about DECnet support...
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4*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker o iproute2 is the tool of choice for configuring the DECnet support for
5*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker   Linux. For many features, it is the only tool which can be used to
6*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker   configure them.
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8*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker o No name resolution is available as yet, all addresses must be
9*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker   entered numerically.
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11*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker o Remember to set the hardware address of the interface using:
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13*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker   ip link set ethX address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
14*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker      (where xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is the MAC address for your DECnet node
15*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker       address)
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17*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker   if your Ethernet card won't listen to more than one unicast
18*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker   mac address at once. If the Linux DECnet stack doesn't talk to
19*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker   any other DECnet nodes, then check this with tcpdump and if its
20*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker   a problem, change the mac address (but do this _before_ starting
21*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker   any other network protocol on the interface)
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23*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker o Whilst you can use ip addr add to add more than one DECnet address to an
24*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker   interface, don't expect addresses which are not the same as the
25*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker   kernels node address to work properly with 2.4 kernels. This should
26*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker   be fine with 2.6 kernels as the routing code has been extensively
27*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker   modified and improved.
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29*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker o The DECnet support is currently self contained. It does not depend on
30*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker   the libdnet library.
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32*de1e4e89SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerSteve Whitehouse <[email protected]>
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